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Re-crafting Rationalization
Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Re-crafting Rationalization contributes to debates relating to the public understanding of science, regarding the conceptualization of the relationship between 'science' and 'the public'. It challenges the prevailing science-centred or 'top-down' framework that currently informs notions of 'public...
Data Science from Scratch with Python
Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
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Are you thinking of learning data science from scratch using Python? (For Beginners)
If you are looking for a complete step-by-step guide to data science using Python from scratch, this book is for you.
After his great success with his...
Blockbuster Science
The Real Science in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
If you've ever wondered how much real science goes into movies like Gravity, novels like The Martian, and television shows like Doctor Who, this is the book for you. Written by an author who is both a data scientist and a science fiction writer, this entertaining and accessible book uses popular science...
The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
“[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—Newsweek
The* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell,...
by David Seed
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964
The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929-1964.
This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know,...
by Subrata Dasgupta
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline,...
Science in the Soul
Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.
For decades, Richard Dawkins...
A Field Guide for Science Writers
The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research,...
Dying Planet
Mars in Science and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity’s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for...
by Jeff Prucher
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic information. It's a window on a whole genre of...
by Damon Knight
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
A classic must-have for all readers and writers of science fiction!
Damon Knight effectively invented science fiction criticism. His reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences—his skillful essays analyzed the books and told why they were good or bad, to the edification of...
by M.A. Rothman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
The year is 2066 and the world is oblivious to the threat it faces.
The fate of humanity lies on the shoulders of Burt Radcliffe, the new head of NASA’s Near Earth Object program.
He’s been rushing the completion of DefenseNet, a ring of satellites that are both part of an early-warning...
The Milton A. Rothman Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
19 Classic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Milton A. Rothman was best known to generations of science-fiction readers for a single classic story written at age 19: "Heavy Planet," published under the byline of "Lee Gregor" in 'Astounding Science Fiction' in 1939 at the beginning of the Golden Age and kept in print for decades in the classic anthology...